Brought to you by my lack of sleep and Google Maps

[montagnarde1793]

There's apparently a town a bit to the South-East of Paris called "Saint-Just-Sauvage" that has a Rue Robespierre. Actually, there are a lot of towns around Paris with one. So why not Paris, eh? EH? None of the others have such interesting names though. I fail to understand why they would name their town Saint-Just-Sauvage," though... O.o Maybe there is a Saint-Just-Apprivoisé someplace.

It would seem for the most part, to continue on the theme, that there are several towns with Rues Robespierre in Nord-Pas-de-Calais (unsurprisingly), several towns around Paris also do, and then randomly one near Brest and another few near Lyon. But that's it. 

And meanwhile, they still refuse to name any street in Paris after him. Most likely on the grounds that he was OMGTEHBLOODTHIRSTYDICTATOR!!!111!!1! Which I find truly ironic, since there is a Rue Bonaparte in Paris and Bonaparte actually *was* a bloodthirsty dictator. (Or if he didn't have a direct thirst for blood his thirst for personal glory definitely spilled a lot of it.) What's up with that? I don't understand why they don't just give him one of Haussman's; after all he doesn't deserve isn't using it. 

And WTF, there's a Rue de Médecis?! And damn, La Fayette's got a huge boulevard! Are the people who decide the street names in Paris completely unaware that he tried to set himself up as military dictator twice and massacred innocent Parisian citizens?! Then again, since there's a Rue Bonaparte, I suppose they don't care.

....I give up. ;______;

Actually, I spoke too soon: there's an Avenue Robespierre in a town near Toulon called La Garde.

Comments

[mujun-no-ageha.livejournal.com]

...actually I think there IS a Rue Robespierre in Paris (and a station du métro named after him too).

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robespierre

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

A station du métro, yes, but wikipedia is mistaken if it thinks there's a Rue Robespierre in Paris; various organizations have been petitioning for one for years without success.

[mujun-no-ageha.livejournal.com]

Well, the English wikipedia says the same thing, and besides, I did find a Rue Robespierre in Paris once on Google Maps, and it was also on a random (satirical) picture I found on the internet...I don't know what to think anymore. (I'm sending you the pictures via e-mail, hope you don't mind).

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That's really quite bizarre, I must say...
(I don't mind at all--I should thank you, in fact.)